Actually, there's TWO new mobs if you include the Illusioner. Plus there's Functions. This update wasn't a TON of stuff like 1.9, but it was more than the last tow updates combined IIRC, and 1.13 will be effectively the same as a ModAPI, what with Data Packs and all, so I feel like we should not be complaining about this. I don't want to come off as a rude new user but people need to stop being so ungrateful about this update, we have literally NEARLY 50 NEW BUILDING BLOCKS! Come on, that's more than the last three updates combined added in RAW blocks (I mean that if you include all variants of the Shulker Box, everything added for blocks from 1.9 up to 1.11 is still less than 1.12 added on its own).

Excuse me, user who is apparently two gurus at once, you're simply asking for a bunch of mods you like to be added to the game. If you want those things in Minecraft, downloads their respective mods that you mentioned. If it's been made into a mod, it's practically guaranteed Mojang won't add it to the game (with the exception of pistons, as they are from a mod).

Everything you suggested is just mods that add nothing but make the game more simple and quick. But I do agree this update is just a junk or "fluff" update. The parrots do nothing and the blocks are just "special looking"

you don't like this update? stay in 1.11. you are not required to move up. I do agree they should get a mod loader, like they said, but adding those mods you listed, those are mods. also, you are just looking at the names of the files in your mods folder, bc mod_ironchest-client is, for 1, highly outdated (the mod runs off of universal now), and 2 is just named IronChest. If you want to be a critic, AT LEAST use the right names for stuff and don't look from a personal view. whenever you do a research paper, a paper on your view of a topic will get you a zero, right? if you are a paid critic and you criticize a product solely on your view and using the tone you just used, you will be fired in the hour

You do have a fair point there. It took iChun forever (I understand he was busy with other, much more important things) to update Portal Gun and other mods to 1.10.2, which isn't even the latest version. I understand what you mean.

Yeah, I do believe that major features that mods provide should be added into the game. I also believe that they should revert /give and /replaceitem to bypass stack-restrictions like they did in previous updates, since a lot of maps that worked in 1.11.x are now broken in 1.12.

first I know some C and C++, BUT Minecraft is written in Java... and I don't know Java...
2nd coding for Minecraft is no easy feat lol... Mojang Obfuscates THEIR code for EVERY SINGLE UPDATE :sad:Google Search:"java obfuscated code"
so code for mods has to be updated for every single to Minecraft! so its almost impossible to keep mods up to date...

the only way some of these great mods/etc will be able to truly live on is for Mojang to code their version of those mods...
but the chances of this happening is slim to none.. ;_; ;_; x(